{{Infobox royalty | type = monarch | name = al-Yazid bin Mohammed<br>الْيَزِيدُ بْن مُحَمَّدٍ | succession = Sultan of Morocco | moretext = (more..) | image = | caption = | reign = 1790–1792 | predecessor = Mohammed III | successor = '''Proclamations:'''<br />Hisham bin Mohammed <small> <br> (in Marrakesh until 1797)</small><br />Sulayman bin Mohammed <small> <br> (in Fes legitimate ruler)</small> | spouse = | house = 'Alawi dynasty | father = Mohammed bin Abdallah | religion = Sunni Islam | birth_place = Fes, Morocco | birth_date = 6 May 1750 | death_date = 23 February 1792 (aged 41) | death_place = Near Zagora, Morocco | burial_place = Saadian Tombs, Marrakesh }} ''Mawlay'' '''al-Yazid bin Mohammed''' ({{langx|ar|الْيَزِيدُ بْن مُحَمَّدٍ}}), born on 6 May 1750 in Fes and died on 23 February 1792 near Zagora, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1790 to 1792, a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty.<ref name="alaoui">{{Cite web|url=http://www.usa-morocco.org/alaoui.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401141440/http://www.usa-morocco.org/alaoui.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 April 2019|title=Morocco Alaoui dynasty}}</ref> He was proclaimed sultan after the death of his father Mohammed bin Abdallah.

== Reign == Mawlay al-Yazid was born in Fes in 1750. al-Yazid's first order of business was persecuting the Jews of the city of Tétouan.<ref>Norman A. Stillman, ''The Jews of Arab Lands'': A History and Source Book (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), 308-309</ref><ref>William Lempriere, A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant..., 2nd ed. (London: J. Walter, 1793), 464</ref> In deference to Yazid's father, Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, the Jews of Tétouan denied financial support to Yazid and his effort to overthrow his father.<ref>Lucien Gubbay and Abraham Levy, The Sephardim: Their Glorious Tradition from the Babylonian Exile to the Present Day (London: Carnell, 1992), 146</ref> Observers remarked that Yazid authorized his black troops to plunder Tétouan's Jewish quarter.<ref>Lempriere, A Tour, 464</ref> For two years, the country was thrown into turmoil. Mawlay al-Yazid attempted to undo the innovations instituted by his father, dismantling much of his father's system.<ref>{{Cite book |last=R. |first=Pennell, C. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/891448295 |title=Morocco : From Empire to Independence. |date=2013 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |isbn=978-1-78074-455-1 |pages=112 |oclc=891448295}}</ref>

==See also== * List of sultans of Morocco * History of Morocco * 'Alawi dynasty

==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070329073127/http://www.mincom.gov.ma/english/generalities/history/history.html History of Morocco] {{S-start}} {{succession box | title = Sultan of Morocco | before = Mohammed III | after = Sulayman | years = 1790&ndash;1792 }} {{S-end}}

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